Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire
Title | Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Consuelo Ruiz-Montero |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 405 |
Release | 2020-02-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1527546594 |
Orality was the backbone of ancient Greek culture throughout its different periods. This volume will serve to deepen the reader’s knowledge of how Greek texts circulated during the Roman Empire. The studies included here approach the subject from both a literary and a sociocultural point of view, illuminating the interconnections between literary and social practices. Topics considered include epigraphy, the rhetoric of transmitting the texts, language and speech, performance, theatre, narrative representation, material culture, and the interaction of different cultures. Since orality is a widespread phenomenon in the Greek-speaking world of the Roman Empire, this book draws the reader’s attention to under-researched texts and inscriptions.
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire
Title | Greek Literature and the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Whitmarsh |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Civilization, Greco-Roman |
ISBN | 9781383037272 |
This text uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to explore the phenomenal rise of interest in literary writing in Greece under the Roman Empire.
Orality, Literacy, Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman World
Title | Orality, Literacy, Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Mackay |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 2008-08-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 904743384X |
This seventh volume on Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece and Rome presents a series of essays that explore the workings of memory in ancient texts and artworks marking the shift over centuries from an oral to a literate culture.
Greek Literature in the Roman Empire
Title | Greek Literature in the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Jason König |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2013-10-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1472521315 |
In this book Jason Konig offers for the first time an accessible yet comprehensive account of the multi-faceted Greek literature of the Roman Empire, focusing especially on the first three centuries AD. He covers in turn the Greek novels of this period, the satirical writing of Lucian, rhetoric, philosophy, scientific and miscellanistic writing, geography and history, biography and poetry, providing a vivid introduction to key texts, with extensive quotation in translation. The challenges and pleasures these texts offer to their readers have come to be newly appreciated in the classical scholarship of the last two or three decades. In addition there has been renewed interest in the role played by novelistic and rhetorical writing in the Greek culture of the Roman Empire more broadly, and in the many different ways in which these texts respond to the world around them. This volume offers a broad introduction to those exciting developments.
Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire
Title | Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Albrecht Dihle |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 658 |
Release | 2013-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134678371 |
Professor Dihle sees the Greek and Latin literature between the 1st century B.C. and the 6th century A.D. as an organic progression. He builds on Schlegel's observation that art, customs and political life in classical antiquity are inextricably entwined and therefore should not be examined separately. Dihle does not simply consider narrowly defined `literature', but all works of cultural socio-historical significance, including Jewish and Christian literature, philosophy and science. Despite this, major authors like Seneca, Tacitus and Plotinus are considered individually. This work is an authoritative yet personal presentation of seven hundred years of literature.
Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235
Title | Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235 PDF eBook |
Author | Alice König |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 427 |
Release | 2020-04-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108493939 |
Discovers new connections and cross-fertilisations between different cultural, linguistic and religious communities in the Roman Empire.
Signs of Orality
Title | Signs of Orality PDF eBook |
Author | Anne MacKay |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 1998-11-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004351426 |
The essays in this volume present new insights into the far-reaching influence of an early oral culture on subsequent development after the spread of literacy. At the outset, revisionist essays on the Homeric epics examine such questions as historical memory, Homer's audience(s), descriptive strategies, ring-composition, and the status of orality as a constitutive feature of the epics. These are followed by virtually unprecedented studies of the orality of later (written) literature, including Greek oratory, Virgilian epic, Pliny's Panegyricus and story-telling in late Greek writers. Included as well are two discussions of Athenian vase-painting: annular scene-composition in the black-figure tradition, and the implications of kalos-inscriptions. An introduction by leading oral theorist John Miles Foley situates all the essays at the leading edge of oral theoretical development.